Wednesday 27 July 2011

NEW Tapped & Packed - TCR W1

Tapped & Packed in Rathbone Place has been like my mistress.  Let me explain - I was married to Milk Bar and I was very much in love, sure I cheated now and again but I always came back to my main love and I never wanted to stray far or for long.  Then a sexy newcomer entered my life, just that little bit closer to where I worked and I found myself spending more time with them and then one week I realised I hadn't been to Milk Bar at all that week.  After the flood of guilt, the recriminations, the soul searching I decided that that's life - sometimes you meet someone and it is for ever, other times you have an intense, wonderful year or two and then you realise that actually you are better off as friends - catching up with them now and again, always pleased to see them, a touch of poignancy about those heady days when you were lovers...  OK now I've got that off my chest, back to Tapped & Packed, that saucy minx who won my heart.  The combination of excellent coffee, great staff, cool premises and delicious food makes the original Tapped & Packed a winner so hooray that they have decided to replicate this formula at the unlovely end of Tottenham Court Road.  With a great corner location and a more spacious feel than the original, this Tapped & Packed is sure to be a winner - my coffee was totally up to Rathbone Place standards and the same excellent food selection is avaiable.  There was even a face from the mother-ship there to make it all feel very familiar.  So lucky you if you  work around Warren St - you just got a new hang-out.

6 comments:

  1. I never knew the first cafe was called Tapped & Packed. What's the deal with not having the name on the cafe??! I thought it was called No.26!

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  2. You and lots of other people Trumper. I love their look, including the subtle branding. Check out the website: http://www.tappedandpacked.co.uk/

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  3. Wow - gutsy location. Hope they do well, like it very much in there...

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  4. The Perfect Trough: maybe they will "regenerate" that end of TCR.

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  5. Thank you for the kind words...Please, next time you are in the shop tell me who you are! Have a coffee on me :)

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  6. My pleasure Sang - will def say hi next time I'm in!

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